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05 · Core Infrastructure & Private Cloud

Milestones of the roadmap items in this theme

As of 2026-09-03 · today

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Q3 · 2026Q4 · 2026JulAugSepOctNovDec11 · Enterprise-Grade Harvester HCI11.1Fabric L3 design approved2026-08-1411.2First rack group on L3 fabric2026-09-25 · in progress11.3All server racks on L3 fabric2026-11-20waiting 11.212 · KVM to Harvester Migrationunplanned13 · Airflow Workflow Orchestrationunplanned14 · DNS Architecture Refactoringunplanned18 · Kubernetes cluster migration to the L3fabric18.1L3-mode K8s cluster provisioned2026-09-30waiting 11.218.2Services migrated in waves,dual-running2026-10-2318.3Cutover complete, legacy clusterretired2026-12-18waiting 11.3today

Milestones

#MilestoneStartTargetStatusWaits forTeamEpicDerived
11 · Enterprise-Grade Harvester HCI
11.1Fabric L3 design approved — server ↔ ToR routed, BGP to ToR2026-07-062026-08-14doneSRE
11.2First rack group on L3 fabric — one rack group cut to BGP peering2026-09-25in progress11.1SRE
11.3All server racks on L3 fabric2026-11-20planned11.2SREwaiting 11.2
12 · KVM to Harvester Migrationunplanned
13 · Airflow Workflow Orchestrationunplanned
14 · DNS Architecture Refactoringunplanned
18 · Kubernetes cluster migration to the L3 fabric
18.1L3-mode K8s cluster provisioned — MetalLB BGP mode2026-08-172026-09-30in progress11.2SREwaiting 11.2
18.2Services migrated in waves, dual-running2026-10-23plannedSRE
18.3Cutover complete, legacy cluster retired2026-12-18planned11.3SREwaiting 11.3

Details

11.1Fabric L3 design approved — server ↔ ToR routed, BGP to ToR2026-08-14done · 2/2
  • L2/L3 boundary and BGP peering design noteowner · Charles
    Where the L2 domain ends, which prefixes each ToR advertises, and how servers peer.
  • Review with the network teamowner · Charles
11.2First rack group on L3 fabric — one rack group cut to BGP peering2026-09-25in progress · 1/3
  • Rack group A ToR BGP configowner · Charles
  • Cut servers of rack group A to routed uplinksowner · TBD
    One rack at a time, maintenance window per rack; rollback is the L2 trunk config kept on the ToR.
  • Validate ECMP and failoverowner · TBD
11.3All server racks on L3 fabric2026-11-20planned · 0/3
  • Rack groups B–D cutover wavesowner · TBD
  • Decommission L2 trunksowner · TBD
  • Update the network architecture pagesowner · TBDarchitecture →
18.1L3-mode K8s cluster provisioned — MetalLB BGP mode2026-09-30in progress · 1/3
  • Provision the RKE2 cluster on the L3 fabricowner · Charles
  • MetalLB BGP mode peering with the ToR pairowner · TBD
  • Istio ambient install and smoke testowner · TBDarchitecture →
    Paths A · B · C of the datapath doc must each be observed on the new cluster.
18.2Services migrated in waves, dual-running2026-10-23planned · 0/3
  • Migration wave plan per namespaceowner · TBD
  • Wave 1 services dual-runningowner · TBD
  • Waves 2–3 services dual-runningowner · TBD
18.3Cutover complete, legacy cluster retired2026-12-18planned · 0/2
  • Final wave cutoverowner · TBD
  • Retire the legacy clusterowner · TBD

Back to the H2 2026 overview · the direction behind these milestones is the H2 2026 roadmap.